Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moraceous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mora-ceous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or resembling the mulberry plants in the family Moraceae.

Example Sentences

"The amatl paper was made from the inner bark of a moraceous tree; of these trees there are 55 genera and over 700 species, of wide distribution, nearly 600 being comprised in the single genus Ficus."

Etymology

Latin morus (“mulberry tree”) + -aceous.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: aceous

Questions

What does moraceous mean?: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the mulberry plants in the family Moraceae.
Where does moraceous come from?: Latin morus (“mulberry tree”) + -aceous.

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